The Hottentot Venus
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The Hottentot Venus
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Author : Rachel Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-19
The Hottentot Venus written by Rachel Holmes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl 'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review 'Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story, Holmes's fascinating book illuminates the forces which dominated her age, and resound in our own' Sunday Telegraph In 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause célèbre. Famed for her exquisite physique – in particular her shapely bottom – she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. This talented, tragic young South African woman became a symbol of exploitation, colonialism – and defiance. In this scintillating and vividly written book Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Baartman's extraordinary life for the first time.
Hottentot Venus
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Author : Barbara Chase-Riboud
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Hottentot Venus written by Barbara Chase-Riboud and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life.
Sara Baartman And The Hottentot Venus
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Author : Clifton Crais
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Sara Baartman And The Hottentot Venus written by Clifton Crais and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Social Science categories.
Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an elusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history.
African Queen
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Author : Rachel Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-03-25
African Queen written by Rachel Holmes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward sex and race, exploitation and colonialism, prurience and science. In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom. Born into a herding tribe known as the Eastern Cape Khoisan, Saartjie was barely out of her teens when she was orphaned and widowed by colonial war and forced aboard a ship bound for England. A pair of clever, unscrupulous showmen dressed her up in a body stocking with a suggestive fringe and put her on the London stage as a “specimen” of African beauty and sexuality. The Hottentot Venus was an overnight sensation. But celebrity brought unexpected consequences. Abolitionists initiated a lawsuit to win Saartjie’s freedom, a case that electrified the English public. In Paris, a team of scientists subjected her to a humiliating public inspection as they probed the mystery of her sexual allure. Stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped, and ridiculed, Saartjie came to symbolize the erotic obsession at the heart of colonialism. But beneath the costumes and the glare of publicity, this young Khoisan woman was a person who had been torn from her own culture and sacrificed to the whims of fashionable Europe. Nearly two centuries after her death, Saartjie made headlines once again when Nelson Mandela launched a campaign to have her remains returned to the land of her birth. In this brilliant, vividly written book, Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Saartjie’s extraordinary story–a story of race, eros, oppression, and fame that resonates powerfully today.
The Hottentot Venus
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Author : Rachel Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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The Hottentot Venus
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Author : Rachel Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-03
The Hottentot Venus written by Rachel Holmes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03 with categories.
In 1994, in one of the first acts of cultural reparation when the African National Congress came to power, Nelson Mandela requested that France release Sara Baartman's remains. Such is the resonance of the 'Hottentot Venus's' story, such is the significance of her place in history, that when the remains were eventually returned in April 2002, the funeral service was a national event. Two hundred years earlier the young Saartjie Baartman had been persuaded by a Dutch man and an English doctor in Cape Town to go with them to England to seek fame and fortune for all three. The fame and the fortune was to come from Saartjie's body - 'Hottentot' women were figures of exotic excess and the three hatched a plan for Saartjie to perform in shows which would be extravaganzas of titillation and exoticism. Saartjie took London by storm. Everyone, from the working classes to the aristocracy, flocked to see her; cartoons, articles and verses were penned about her, the bustle came into fashion just as she rose to fame and women tried to emulate her large posterior. But some humane radicals protested that the Venus was being exploited and degraded. This protest gained such force that eventually a court case held to establish whether she was performing of her own free will. It found that she was, and it was only some years later, when Saartjie was living a miserable life in Paris, that she finally realised that her vision of herself as a free woman, a celebrity, a successful showgirl, was only part of the truth, and that her sexuality and her race had indeed been exploited. She died in Paris at the age of 25. This is the story of one woman's extraordinary journey, set against the dramatic background of a world in flux.
Black Venus 2010
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Author : Deborah Willis
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-08
Black Venus 2010 written by Deborah Willis and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-08 with Art categories.
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus."
They Call Me Hottentot Venus
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Author : Monica Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-12
They Call Me Hottentot Venus written by Monica Clarke and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with categories.
This book addresses human trafficking in easy, non academic language. It is a novel and is a good read especially for teenagers. Saartjie Baartman also known as Hottentot Venus, was an ordinary, curious, 18 year old, who, in 1810, travelled to a foreign country with all the excitement and expectation of any young girl, eager to see the big world, eager to make some money. Her big misfortune was a meeting with a British surgeon, Alexander Dunlop, who befriended her, and used his position as a man of medicine to cover up his real motive, which was to display her as a piece of erotic meat. And to make money out of her. Saartjie tells what went through her mind as she watched the crowds in exhibition halls in Europe gaping at her whilst feeding their erotic fantasies. She talks of her Khoikhoi culture and tells of her innocent hopes and dreams to earn honest money, and of her shame and degradation. The book shows that society let Saartjie down, and ends with a well-referenced bibliography for further reading.
Sara Baartman And The Hottentot Venus
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Author : Clifton C. Crais
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Sara Baartman And The Hottentot Venus written by Clifton C. Crais and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Exploitation categories.
Venus In The Dark
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Author : Janell Hobson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Venus In The Dark written by Janell Hobson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable cultural history of black female beauty, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus." In 1810, Saartjie Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, and museums and universities as the "Hottentot Venus." The subsequent legacy of representations of black women's sexuality-from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos-continues to refer back to this persistent icon. This book analyzes the history of critical and artistic responses to this iconography by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.